Itsy Bitsy Spider (Emma Frost #1) by Willow Rose Read Free Book Online

dunes. It
was near the end of summer.
    "But I thought we were being careful. I
thought you were on the pill?" He said harshly.
    "I was. Mother gave me those pills so I
wouldn't get myself in trouble. A safety precaution, she called it. And they
were supposed to work, they really were Christian. I don't know why they didn't
work. But it doesn't matter, does it? Things happen. Life happens."
    "This is bad. This is really bad."
Christian paused and looked at Astrid. "She's gonna say you did this on
purpose. You did it to get me to marry you, to get a hook on me. Did you? Did
you do this on purpose?"
    Astrid shook her head. "I don't know what
you're talking about. I don't understand."
    "Of course you don't. You're too damn
stupid to understand anything."
    "What's the matter Christian? Aren't you
happy? This is our child. Made from our love?"
    Christian smiled. "Of course I'm happy.
It's just ..."
    "What?"
    He put his arm around her neck. "Nothing.
You wouldn't understand anyway. I'll take care of Mother. Don't you worry. I'll
handle this."
    "What is it you'll take care of?"
Astrid felt confused. She had been so happy once she found out she was
pregnant. She was very young at only sixteen, but it was okay, wasn't it? It
was after all everything she had ever dreamed of, to become a mother, to start
a family of her own and do it better than her own mother had.
    "Don't you worry your pretty little head
with that," Christian said and kissed her. It was the first and only time
he ever called her pretty.
    Then they made love one more time.
    He was supposed to talk to his mother about it
on the day everything went so terribly wrong for Astrid and she ended up in
this strange hole in the ground. Now she wondered if he ever got to do it.
    She felt the baby kick again and laughed, but
soon the laughter became tears, tears of sadness and despair when it suddenly
struck her. What if she lived long enough to give birth? Was she going to do it
on her own? Was she going to give birth to her baby down here in this hole in
the ground? Or was she going to die trying?

13
2012
    The Queen of
Fitness was what they called her. Irene Justesen was
her real name but no one ever called her that anymore. Not after she became
famous in Denmark for her fitness videos back in the early nineties and wrote
herself into the history books as the first real fitness guru. There had been
many others since trying to accomplish what she had, but none as successful as
her.
    Even as she was approaching seventy she still
looked as fit as ever and she still told people they could also get those iron
buns if only they worked on it.
    In many ways Irene Justesen was a success story,
one that many people admired and tried to emulate. She had made millions during
the nineties. People bought her videos, her books and she even had her own show
on TV. Iron buttocks in fifteen minutes quickly became one of the most popular TV shows in the history of television in
Denmark. People everywhere in the country, tall or small, old or young watched
as Irene Justesen showed them how to work
those abs or get rid of the
cellulite in only fourteen days . The key to her success was being at
the right place at the right time. She started making her videos just as the
health and fitness wave swept across the country and everybody had to start
working out. Plus she was the first one. The first to make it easy for people
to get in shape, to Shape It Up like
the title on her first video. For the first time people didn't have to go all
the way down to the fitness center (of which there were very few back then)
they didn't have to join some aerobics class and sweat on a floor among twenty
other people (who were always more fit and better looking then yourself) while
looking at how ridiculous you looked in the body sized wall to wall mirrors.
No, with these new videos they could stay at home and work out. They could do
it in the private, where no one was looking. And that suited the Danes very
well.